Amazon.com Posted Biggest Job Growth Since Dot Com Boom

The good news keeps coming from Amazon.com. After surprising Wall Street with a stellar fourth quarter, the Seattle-based Internet retailer disclosed in January that its employment had risen to 20,700 people as of the end of 2008. That translates into net growth of 3,700 people — its biggest annual jump in nearly a decade.

The company listed about 100 open positions for the month of January, the vast majority of them in the Seattle region.